A24’s version takes a different approach. Director Benny Safdie, in his first solo directorial effort, draws from that documentary while expanding on Kerr’s inner world. Safdie worked closely with ...

In The Smashing Machine, he delivers a performance full of pain, heartbreak, passion, resilience, and tenacity as Mark Kerr, an MMA fighter who became a pioneer in the world of UFC. Behind the scenes, ...

Becoming the Smashing Machine required disguising the Rock. "It was all-consuming," Dwayne Johnson, star of the biopic about MMA fighter Mark Kerr, tells Entertainment Weekly of how big the challenge ...

Despite his all-around success in life as a cultural figure, it's clear that Dwayne Johnsonneeded to hit the reset button on his movie career. The WWE superstar-turned-cinematic luminary became less ...

Veteran journalist Dave Meltzer has assessed The Rock's portrayal of Mark Kerr in "The Smashing Machine," and discussed whether the movie got things right about the MMA legend's career. A majority of ...

“I come from a wrestling background, but I might face off against someone who is in jiu-jitsu, or a boxer,” explains a hulking Dwayne Johnson as Mark Kerr in Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, ...

Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” isn’t what you think it is, especially if you think it’s a movie about a British guy who thinks his typewriter is the tops. “The Smashing Machine” would seem to ...

The Golden Globes-nominated actor talks to IndieWire about all the contributing factors that led to this “banging on my rib cage” telling him to make the unconventional A24 sports biopic with director ...

Dwayne Johnson transforming into MMA pioneer Mark Kerr for “The Smashing Machine” and Louis Tomlinson releasing his third solo album are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a ...

The new A24 drama The Smashing Machine starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson represents more than another sports biopic. It delivers a raw and emotional retelling of one of the most fascinating lives in ...

This image released by A24 shows Dwayne Johnson in a scene from "The Smashing Machine." (Eric Zachanowich/A24 via AP) Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” isn’t what you think it is, especially if ...